In the book, And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard, protagonist Emily is sorting out the world by writing poetry and reading Emily Dickinson. The book is full of poetry and is written with a very poetic tone. Here is a particularly beautiful passage:
So sew. Either way you spell it, on its own, the word looks wrong. Emily could write a poem about it, about how sew needs a subject, an object. About how a girl needs a duty to lock her in place. So if she sits at a desk, scrawls words on paper, are the words as lonely as she, or do they sow seeds into a soul across time, across centuries? Was Emily Dickinson ever able to thread the words together in such a way that she was beyond the need for stitches?
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Shawn L. Bird 
“So what? Sew buttons. Zippers are better. Buttons are cheaper. So what? Sew buttons.” A little ditty my Dad said, whenever one of us came out with “So what?”
lol Good one.
In response to “You know what?” My sister used to say, “No, but I know his brother Volt. Shocking isn’t he?” 😉
That’s better than “Chicken butt”! 🙂
lol
That IS a beautiful quote, Shawn… and now I must read this book.. thanks!
I quite enjoyed it. I hope you do, too!
Thanks, Shawn… I ordered it from Amazon right away… a paper copy as it looks like the type of book I will be underlining and writing in.. *laughs*
Should I pout that you didn’t order *my* book while you were on Amazon? lol
Oh no… maybe I should have! Let me go check that out.. it might be in my wishlist and I forgot about it.
I now own Kindle versions of Grace Awakening and Grace Awakening Power 🙂 Will give them a read this weekend! Thanks for the reminder! Oh and just so you know.. where available these days, I buy kindle versions due to money and space allotment.. but if i absolutely love what I read, I do buy the paperbacks or hardcopies later… 😉
lol Thank you for your patronage. I hope you enjoy them.
I feel horrid! they’d been saved on my wishlist since last August *headdesk* sometimes I need a good swift kick in the rear to remind me to purchase the books I really want to read. I look forward to them 🙂